History

Tours - Short Tour: A Quick Overview and Timeline of Shuttle-Mir

Shuttle-Mir encompassed 11 space shuttle flights and 7 astronaut residencies
on the Russian space station Mir. The Short Tour links these 18 missions with
18 web pages, in succession.

Choose STS-60 to begin the tour.
Each page offers a link to "Continue the Short Tour," as well as other
links to more information. If you choose to follow one of these further links
and then wish to get back to the tour, click the "Back" button.

The Short Tour's pages are listed in the timeline below, with brief summaries
and links to more detailed pages.

STS-71:
First Docking
Atlantis performed the first shuttle docking with Mir; delivered a replacement
crew -- cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin -- and returned
Dezhurov, Strekalov, and Thagard to Earth.

November
12 - 20

STS-74:
A New Docking Module The first shuttle assembly flight to Mir, it carried a Russian-built,
U.S.-funded docking module with two attached solar arrays.

1996

March
22 - 31

STS-76:
Starting a Continuous U.S. Presence This mission carried Shannon Lucid to Mir, demonstrated logistics
capabilities with a Spacehab module, and placed experiment packages on
Mir's docking module during a spacewalk.

March 22
- August 26

Lucid
Increment: One for the Records Shannon Lucid began the continuous U.S. presence on Mir and set a
U.S. single spaceflight record of 188 days. The Priroda module, with about
2,200 pounds of U.S. science hardware, was docked to Mir.

Foale
Increment: Collision and Recovery Foale experienced the collision with the Progress, which damaged
the Spektr module and caused the loss of some science experiments. A remarkable
salvage and replanning effort by Foale and the science community maximized
the scientific return. Foale conducted a spacewalk with Anatoly Solovyev
to survey damage to the Spektr module.

September
25
- October 6

STS-86:
Wolf Succeeds Foale David Wolf boarded Mir with this mission, replacing Foale. Astronaut
Scott Parazynski and cosmonaut Vladimir Titov conducted a joint spacewalk,
the first in which a Russian wore a U.S. spacesuit.